Detecting HIV Viruses Is Now Easier By Only Using A Smartphone
Shakti - Nov 12, 2018
By using this modern portable smartphone-based device, detecting HIV viruses now is quick and easier than before. This tech may be our future in HIV war.
Experts of Brigham and Women's Hospital have created a new smartphone-based platform and published in the Nature Communications journal.
Detecting HIV viruses is now easy by this portable smartphone-based technology
The traditional methods for monitoring HIV viruses are high-cost and needing polymerase chain reaction - PCR usage.
Hadi and his team created a system using nanotechnology, microchip, smartphone, and 3D-printed device, that helps detect the RNA nucleic acids in only one blood drop.
The platform can realize the HIV nucleic acids via a motion of DNA-engineered beads, but don't need to use the high-cost devices. Experts indicated that the device can detect HIV viruses with 99.1% specificity together with 94.6% sensitivity at the threshold amount of 1,000 virus particles/ml and giving the result in 1 hour. The total costs for purchasing phone attachment, microchip and reagents are no more than $5 for one full test.
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